A User's Guide to Entropy

Bois, Yve-Alain; Krauss, Rosalind

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“…The distributions followed by the datasets consisting the contact rates of individuals of each district were determined using Arena's 'Input Analyzer' tool (Arena 16.00.00002) ( Table 1). The tool generates different distributions to which the input datasets could fit, with the associated errors [65].…”

Section: Contact Networkmentioning

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An Agent-Based Model to assess COVID-19 spread and health systems burden in Telangana state, India

Narassima

Jammy

Sankarshana

et al. 2020

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Objectives: To assess the transmission dynamics and the health systems burden of COVID-19 using an Agent Based Modeling (ABM) approach using a synthetic population. Study design: The study used a synthetic population with 31,738,240 agents representing 90.67 percent of the overall population of Telangana state, India as per 2011 Census of India. Lockdown phases as per Indian scenario considering the effects of post-lockdown, use of control measures and immunity on secondary infections were studied. District-level localized parameters were assigned to agents as local models prove to be much helpful for policymakers. Methods: The counts of people in different health states were measured separately for each district of Telangana. The model was run for 365 days and six scenarios with varying proportions of people using control measures (100%, 75% and 50%) and varying immunity periods of recovered patients (90 and 180 days). Results: Results indicate that the peak values were attained soon after the lockdown was lifted. The risk estimates indicate that protection factor values are higher when more proportion of people adopt control measures such as use of face mask and social distancing. Population Attributable Risk values measured longitudinally indicated higher values like 60.41% and 47.18% when 75 percent of people followed control measures during lockdowns. Conclusions: ABM approach helps to analyze grassroot details compared to compartmental models. Risk estimates allows the policymakers to determine the protection offered, its strength and percentage of population shielded by use of control measures.

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Section: Contact Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Agent-Based Model to assess COVID-19 spread and health systems burden in Telangana state, India

Narassima

Jammy

Sankarshana

et al. 2020

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“…This chimes with the architectural geographies of Jenkins (, 226) and Grosz (), who have urged architectural theory and practice to ‘dispel the myth of buildings as being static, closed and materially constant’. Modernist architecture, in its attempt at ‘building for eternity’ (Bois and Krauss , 61), sidelines the unavoidability of the entropic distortion and disintegration of architecture (Lee ). Conical Intersect thus contests the idea of matter as a controllable form to be subordinated to human activity in its exposing of the numerous procedures of repair and maintenance at play to uphold the sense of a building ‘characterized by perfect order, completeness, immanence and internal homogeneity rather than leaky, partial and heterogeneous entities’ (Graham and Thrift , 10; see also Edensor ).…”

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The gaps of architectural life: the affective politics of Gordon Matta‐Clark'sConical Intersect

Dekeyser

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper contributes to a burgeoning concern with the 'critical geographies of architecture'. The central argument is that recent architecture-geography encountersinspired by non-representational approaches to material mutability and affective inhabitationare failing to connect with socio-political framings of the architectural. In this light, the paper aligns Gordon Matta-Clark's architectural artwork Conical Intersect (1975) with the Deleuzo-Guattarian axiom of micropolitics and macropolitics to re-insert the architectural subject as a microtexture of political forms imbued with (1) asymmetrical assemblages of material volatility, (2) restricted capacities of 'dwelling or being with' architecture and (3) bounded notions of living affectively. I suggest Conical Intersect foregrounds architectural space as a meeting of dreamworlds and institutional effects. In its piercing of that space of interaction, the artwork produces an architectural form freed from the conventions of legal and physical constraints to suggest the potency of alternative modes of living with and living in architecture that should be of primary interest to critical geographies of architecture and beyond.

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“…In the weeks that I knew him, Zhang Dali remained adamant that there had been no interaction with his graffiti, no response to the call he had sent bowling down the blocks relishing the fact that this word … points in opposite directions simultaneously: both downward, to the decomposition of matter (as in a corpse), and upward, to its transcendence (as in the passage to an altered, sacred state, as for example, a ghost). 20 Unity is proceeded by multiplicity, since as Jacques Derrida writes, 'the nonpresence of the other is [already] inscribed within the sense of the present'. 21 The scribbles and scratches that landed on or around Zhang Dali' s heads may not have made sense to him as author, but the pidgin they began with his mark gestured at the possibility of future Creoles, manifesting until that time the différance inherent in his artwork, languages he himself could not yet understand.…”

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Graffiti Beijing

Cornell

2013

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I find it difficult to identify the first moments of my encounter with China, the crucial point at which I made, succumbed or arbitrarily happened upon the decision to study this culture and its official, national language of Mandarin. That moment a product of the last, delivered from the one preceding. I can’t get a hold of the one loose end with which this story commenced, the original beginning from which this particular hybridity was formed. There must have been a day when I ticked a box to enrol to study Chinese, a day that I finally decided against other options, but unable now to identify this moment, I can’t help querying just how significant it could have been. My memories of China the idea, or story, extend to the vanishing point of earliest childhood, through celestial stereotypes in storybooks, through the smell of incense in Chinatown, through stories of ‘The Orient ... almost a European invention’, culminating in a myriad of stimuli.

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A User's Guide to Entropy

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An Agent-Based Model to assess COVID-19 spread and health systems burden in Telangana state, India

An Agent-Based Model to assess COVID-19 spread and health systems burden in Telangana state, India

The gaps of architectural life: the affective politics of Gordon Matta‐Clark'sConical Intersect

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